Internal and External Influences:

  • Internal Influences describe consumer behavior that is influenced by: demographics, psychographics (lifestyle), personality, motivation, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings.

  • External Influences describe consumer behavior that is influenced by: culture, ethnicity, family, social class, reference groups, and market mix factors.

Market Research:

  • Market research is the process of systematically gathering, recording and analyzing data and information about customers, competitors, and the market.

SWOT Matrix:

  • The SWOT Matrix represents the physical layout of the ideas presented in SWOT analysis

SWOT Analysis:

  • SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or a business venture.

4 P's of Marketing:

  • Professor E. Jerome McCarthy, also at the Harvard Business School in the early 1960s, suggested that the Marketing Mix contained 4 elements: product, price, place and promotion.

Market Profitability Analysis:

  • Market profitability analysis is the examination of relevant influences on the success of a product, including influences such as competitors, suppliers etc.

Marketing Mix:

  • The marketing mix is generally accepted as the use and specification of 'the four Ps' describing the strategic position of a product in the marketplace.

Slogan:

  • Advertising slogans are short, often memorable phrases used in advertising campaigns


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